Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code once and reuse it more easily.

Certain principles hold for the use of iterators: In general, you should be able to have multiple traversals in progress at the same time; that is, an iterator should allow for the concept of nested ...

The project's goals include a major overhaul of Java's generics, a new approach to generic typing, and new support for value types.

I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...